Bachelor Buttons
¥%, cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 t. soda dissolved in 1 T. warm water
%, t. salt
1 t. vanilla
2 cups flour
Mix in order given. Make into small balls. Place on cookie sheet. Press a nut or
cherry on top.
Miss Carmella Abraham
Ste. Rose, Man.

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Butter Buds
1 cup butter
2 eggs
22 cups sifted flour
Yq t. salt
1 cup brown sugar
2 t. vanilla
4 t. baking powder
Cream butter and sugar. Add well beaten eggs. Combine sifted flour, baking
powder, and salt. Add flavor. Work well together. Roll into balls the size of
marbles. Press with fork. Bake in moderate oven at 375 deg. F.
Mrs. Anita Houde
Ste. Rose, Man.

Chocolate Refrigerator Cookies
2 cups once sifted pastry flour
or 1% cups once sifted all purpose flour

Y2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking powder
Y2 cup cocoa
10 T. shortening

1 cup lightly packed brown sugar
Y2 cup corn syrup

1 egg well beaten
Y2 tsp. vanilla

Sift together 3 times the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa. Cream
shortening, blend in brown sugar. Beat in corn syrup, add well beaten egg, a little
at a time, beating after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Add dry ingredients to
creamed mixture a little at a time, combining thoroughly after each addition. Form
dough into 2 long cylinders about 2 inches in diameter and wrap closely in waxed
paper. Chill to overnight. Preheat oven to 350 deg. F. Cut chilled dough into thin
slice and bake 10 to 12 minutes, at about 350 deg. F.
Mrs. Valerie Masson
Ste. Rose, Man.

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